Black diamond Mt Shasta, CA
West Face drops 1,023 vertical feet over 3,052 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 1,280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 13th steepest of 34 named runs at Mt Shasta. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 20°, West Face gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Shasta does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th sunniest named run at Mt Shasta. Its top sits at 6,490 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.